I was 3 years old when I first heard this great song on the radio at home with my mom and immediately loved it. It brings such great memories of my mother. Still does in 2024.
Lip-sinked to death... None of the guitars/Bass are even plugged in... and they didn't have wireless tech back in the 60's, it wasn't a thing until the late 70's/80's...
I was in the Air Force stationed in Charleston in ‘66 and a bunch of us were walking the “battery” and walked in this studio accidentally and Spanky (relatively unknown in ‘66)and Our Gang were rehearsing and singing and and we instantaneously loved the songs and actually they were singling “Lazy Day”!! It was fantastic!!! What a great day!!!
I was playing music videos for my Dad (drafted '66-'68) and he wanted to see what Spanky and Our Gang looked like. It was a treat seeing him go back to his younger days and I'm thankful to grow up listening to his fabulous 60's music.
I know there were riots and turmoil in the 60's. But for most people it was much happier times than the cesspool we live in now. The music was exponentially better.
😮 for most white people but not for black people where we were told we can't sit in main areas of movie theaters but sit in the back or up stairs called thebpeanut gallery. We were being deny our rights to vote as American citizens by white officals putting all kind of obstacles to discourage us from voting. Are homes and churches with being blown up and fire crosses set in front of our homes. We couldn't stay in hotels but we could work in them as servants but we have to enter through the back. We can only apply to certain job positions as train Porter's garbage men for black men and black men were paid much much lower pay then white men. And my mother were a maid that washed white people clothes and she had to enter through the back door of their home and leave through the back door of their home I know because I was a young girl that went with my mother and I remember hearing names of civil rights leaders being shot including the Kennedy Brothers yeah those were the Happy times depending on who you are talking to😢
Even though the war was raging there wasn't the level of hate and division there is today. The Republicans I knew then got along with Democrats for the most part and we could actually have opposing conversations in a civilized manner. Not today.
I was 6 years old when this aired. I doubt I saw it, but not impossible. I used to watch the Ed Sullivan show all the time with my mother and grandparents. I miss that older, better, America. It was indeed a magical time!
Another one of those songs that underscored the lives of kids in high school in the 60s. Not the British invasion. Not psychedelic. Not anti war. Just plain old good harmonies in an uplifting song. There are many like this that punctuated those years and still bring smiles.
I was 5. I loved music from my very earliest memories and this song, more than any other from the 60s, brings back mountains of memories from an era that was difficult for my parents but extraordinary for a little boy!
This could be a perfect trilogy with "Georgie Girl" by The Seekers and "Windy" by The Association! For an encore, they could play The Rain the Park and Other Things by The Cowsills!
Spanky McFarlane had one of those hauntingly beautiful voices that transcends. the decades. One of the most under rated of the great female singers 60's early 70's era.
A guilty pleasure. Spanky and her mates nailed it. In the middle of the Early Rock Era, I had to live in denial that I loved this one. The Cool Kids would have crucified me. I've come out of hiding today to say this is just one of the great ones.
@@kennethsteffens67451968 jr high make out parties where kids were expected to suck face to a 15 minute version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida had me wondering if I was queerball. Wasn’t into playing tonsil hockey with awkward tween Twiggy wanna-bees. I’d rather be riding my Stingray Schwinn with the guys or riding my Voit Surfmat (predecessor to the Morey Boogie board) didn’t have my first girlfriend until jr year highschool.
The Ed Sullivan Show meant two things to me back then: 1) A weekly window on the greatest social, music and entertainment revolution in history. 2) Ed saying "good night" and waving to the audience meant it was time to take a bath and get ready for - ugh - school the next day!
I remember 1967 during winter time listening to this song on the radio. I am not into pop music but this song was special and so was the group. Being a musician myself I can appreciate the work put into it.
I'm a 🇯🇵 guy in my late 20s, and I listen to this song almost every day, which was released when my father, born in 1953, was in the 9th grade. I hate that I live in an age where Billboard is dominated by vile lyrics and melodyless rap tunes. I sincerely hope that songs like this will return to day-to-day 🇺🇸.
I was born in '55 - I remember when this song came out. There was a variety of music then, and a variety now. I am digging "Dirty" by Grandson (true) but I swing back around to this stuff as well for nostalgia. But I get it. There is a dearth of uptempo songs these days - it was limited back then as well. You have to dig for it. Don't patronize the rappers - if enough get that message that stuff will decrease. Hasn't come close yet, though. Dig deep, though. There's a wealth of songs from the 1920s to the 1940s that is well written and uptempo - yours to discover.
Wow!That really took me back to some great memories. Me and my sister running into the living room anytime we heard music on the ED Sullivan show which my dad would be watching. My sister would run up and turn the TV up to my dads dismay. He didn't like any pop music.
I remember being 5 yrs ols and waking up on a sunny Saturday morning and this song was cranking on my brothers radio. It just gave me such a happy feeling. I'll never forget it!
When they sing the word "day" in the chorus, you can hear the true power of well-crafted 5-part harmony. It's like a beauty bomb going off in your ears.
The mastermind of those harmonies--the guy on her left with the goofy grin--died in a home accident soon after this song was recorded. His death shortened the life of the group. We'll never know the masterpieces they could have sung.
@@scootch4224 You don,t have to tell me they were gifted talented artists whos careers were cut short by the tragic deaths of some of their musicians! I saw Elaine many years ago in Atlantic City during a tour in 1984 and she was great and I will always love her !!!!!
Spanky and Our Gang captured lightning in a bottle again and again, then lost it with the untimely death of Malcolm Hale at age 27. Now only McFarlane (Spanky) and Seiter (the "Chief", the drummer） are still with us at this writing.
I was living in Landstuhl Germany. As a 16 year-old, it was my final year as an Army brat. My dad retired in spring of 1968, and we moved to California. Great days.
I was a junior in HIgh School when this wonderful uplifting song came out in 1967. We were well into the Vietnam War in 1967. The draft was in full swing. I remember the recruiters would come to the high school, to try to recruit the seniors to join up when they graduated. There was so much great music back in the 60's thru the 80s. Then the quality of music started to fade somewhat in the 90's. Now it seem like music is like everything else has become. Not so great. Well it was nice to listen to Spanky and Our Gang today. They definitely put out some nice music.
The military has not changed, my son's high school offered aptitude testing, promising not to share results with any military recruiters.....LIE...those recruiters began calling our home to speak to my honors society son trying to snag him away from heading off to college. Vampires...Gave them all a good piece of my mind.😡🤬
I am 67 baby 80s teen so I am lucky never heard this song Beatles fan discovered strawberry alarm clock I luv the fashion music of the later 60s I am Aussie technically born summer of luv i am a natural trippey amazing times!💛
It aired on December 17, 1967. Well, hell, no wonder I didn't see it. That was the day I landed in Bien Hoa Air Base in the wee hours to begin my first tour of duty with the 101st Airborne Division. We left Fort Campbell, KY, on Friday the 15th.
Great band from Illinois. In 1968, at the height of their success, group member Malcolm Hale passed away. He was a key to their sound, in the studio, so the band broke up.
The guy wearing the hat is Nigel Pickering. Malcolm Hale is the guy standing to Spanky’s Left hand. His cause of death was actually from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty heating system.
@@tonyvincent9753 Just Horrible, if some of the band members didn,t die and the group didn,t break up till much later, they could have been the greatest pop recording group of all time winning all kinds of awards and most likely would have been in the hall of fame !!!!!
I dedicate this song to my late father, "The truck master!" Even when he was home, off that Mac truck, he was still absent. Constantly looking out the window in deep thought. He was thinking, seaching for his true home, but never know where to park that truck for good. Love you, Dad. Miss you terribly 💔
Wonderful song from a great musical era. Wow! Was I blessed to be growing up then. This kind of music, from that period, simply makes me feel fresh...forever young!
Just before my time I was born in 1973, but as I grew up listening to all decades of music, the 1960s was a fabulous era of music. This song is on my Spotify 60s playlist and it's one of my favorites on there. It's such a stress free, relaxing, uplifting, happy song. Something today's music is rarely doing. Those of you who lived through this era how lucky you are. ✌🏼☮
Love this group and their music! Wish they made music like this now days. I can wake up in a sour mood and listen to music like this a instantly start to feel happy. Sure wish music was like that now. Great stuff! 🎵♥️🌞♥️🎵
yea its a pure seratonin song, for a nice summer day like as this the fourth of july or a day off, its so upbeat but its hoaky sounding but its still a song that is smile inducing, and for times when you can let your guard down and smell the plesent smells of nature or if its more ones inclination the smells of food in the park or the smell of rubber friesh dirt and alcohol fuel fumes at a local race track with family and friends and the carnevale like smells of the food stand.
woodstock. it was a happening i get that. but skinny (men not good) shaggy, drunk, high, grubby, muddy, broke.... what era would that be good? and the down with "the man," drop out, commune living, free love (many women devastated over that belief) all came to a fast halt. woodstockers' today and for quite awhile, housing, retirement, health, bills, family, g kids, g kids college all the things they said the man back in the day was foolish doing as the old generation didn't understand how the new world works.
@@michaelrochester48--the oldest at the time was Nigel Pickering, the man in the hat playing rhythm guitar, and singing, next to Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane. He was 38 when this performance was aired. Malcolm Hale (lead guitarist/vocalist next to Elaine) was 26 here... he, sadly, would pass away from carbon monoxide poisoning the very next year. Bassist/vocalist Lefty Baker was 28, and the (other) rhythm guitarist/vocalist Kenny Hodges was 31. The drummer, (with the falsetto!) John Seiter, however, was a mere 20. "Spanky" herself, was 25 here!
And believe it or not she is the mother of My Biological Daughter who goes by the Name of Jewel Kilcher and her songs Foolish Games and Enter from the East are about the situation involving Me
I truly miss those days growing up, in the '60s, hearing this song brings back a lot of memories. With all the things going on in the World today this song is soothing to hear.
This one is among the classics of what is now called, "Sunshine Pop", along with Spanky/Our Gang's other hits and some by the Mamas & Papas, the 5th Dimension (Up Up & Away), The Association (Everything That Touches You), The Turtles (Happy Together), Young Rascals (Groovin') as well as some Beatles tracks (Good Day Sunshine, Penny Lane). One of my favorites is The Rain The Park & Other Things by The Cowsills.
This song and "Goovin'" by the Young Rascals evoke the feeling of being a kid on summer vacation back in that time. Life was so simple. We were less informed and had so much less weight on our shoulders. Ignorance was indeed bliss.
I agree whole heartedly about your comment. I would nominate another song that fits your summer vacation theme. How about "Daydream"by the Lovin' Spoonful.
I was 8 or 9 and I loved this time. What a kinder, gentler time, I got a little choked up By the rush of memories I’m an only child 65 years old now, and my Dad and all my great aunts uncle’s grandparents and some childhood friends are gone. If you old enough to remember feel blessed, if your not old enough feel blessed as well, but you missed out on a magical time Tom Struska
I would put them before the Mamas and Papas, because they also could play instruments on stage while singing. Though this performance here isn’t all live, they performed live all over the US.
As a kid during the '60s, I thought the song was "Daisy Day." Whatever it was, always made me happy to hear it. Elaine's instrument is so clear and strong!
The epitome song of the 60s and my childhood. One of my all time favorites and I'm 65! Many songs have passed through my years and this one, along with Harpers Bazaar's Feelin' Groovy, describe those better years.
I was 3 years old when I first heard this great song on the radio at home with my mom and immediately loved it. It brings such great memories of my mother. Still does in 2024.
No computers! No cell phones! Just good times. How I miss them so.
They weren't all good times...
Lip-sinked to death... None of the guitars/Bass are even plugged in... and they didn't have wireless tech back in the 60's, it wasn't a thing until the late 70's/80's...
@@texas2627 all these 60's shows were lip-synced to the record.... notice how the drummer is barely playing....
Smh 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Do you have a computer and/or cell phone nowadays?
I was in the Air Force stationed in Charleston in ‘66 and a bunch of us were walking the “battery” and walked in this studio accidentally and Spanky (relatively unknown in ‘66)and Our Gang were rehearsing and singing and and we instantaneously loved the songs and actually they were singling “Lazy Day”!! It was fantastic!!! What a great day!!!
Wow!! What a memory!
That’s Awesome!😎
Lucky Ducky😂
Cool reflections brother
I was playing music videos for my Dad (drafted '66-'68) and he wanted to see what Spanky and Our Gang looked like. It was a treat seeing him go back to his younger days and I'm thankful to grow up listening to his fabulous 60's music.
I know there were riots and turmoil in the 60's. But for most people it was much happier times than the cesspool we live in now. The music was exponentially better.
It was just as much a cesspool then as today
You got that right
😮 for most white people but not for black people where we were told we can't sit in main areas of movie theaters but sit in the back or up stairs called thebpeanut gallery. We were being deny our rights to vote as American citizens by white officals putting all kind of obstacles to discourage us from voting. Are homes and churches with being blown up and fire crosses set in front of our homes. We couldn't stay in hotels but we could work in them as servants but we have to enter through the back. We can only apply to certain job positions as train Porter's garbage men for black men and black men were paid much much lower pay then white men. And my mother were a maid that washed white people clothes and she had to enter through the back door of their home and leave through the back door of their home I know because I was a young girl that went with my mother and I remember hearing names of civil rights leaders being shot including the Kennedy Brothers yeah those were the Happy times depending on who you are talking to😢
Till Reagan
Even though the war was raging there wasn't the level of hate and division there is today. The Republicans I knew then got along with Democrats for the most part and we could actually have opposing conversations in a civilized manner. Not today.
Oh Lord, I miss those days of the 'happy music' that we lived back then!
Born int he 50's and grew up in the 60's and 70's - we are so lucky to really have the greatest music that will ever be I believe
I sure miss those days too! How fortunate we were!
Need patchouli.
For a 10 year old as I was then the line Ice Cream day dreams really resonated with me. Beautiful song
These songs are so much better than the junk of today. I remember these days. They were so much more simpler.
Amen brother!
Spanky and Mama Cass, two of the best female voices of that era.
One hundred percent
@@robertmalfy8552 And the late great Judith Durham!
With Grace Slick
@@GlassmakerRN Yep and Petula Clark as well ❤️🩹
Notice they're singing the song over the actual recording?
Great jacket that Spanky was wearing , wow!
I like it myself .
Ohmigod, I for how much I loved this song as a kid when it came out.
And I still do!
The 60's was without a doubt the greatest decade of music ever. Followed closely by the 70's
100% correct!!!!!
have to agree
Right on!!!!
Absolutely correct
My parents felt that way about the 40’s and 50’s.
I was 6 years old when this aired. I doubt I saw it, but not impossible. I used to watch the Ed Sullivan show all the time with my mother and grandparents. I miss that older, better, America. It was indeed a magical time!
Another one of those songs that underscored the lives of kids in high school in the 60s. Not the British invasion. Not psychedelic. Not anti war. Just plain old good harmonies in an uplifting song. There are many like this that punctuated those years and still bring smiles.
I was 6. One of my older brothers had the album and I used to listen to it all the time. It still sounds great.
I was 5. I loved music from my very earliest memories and this song, more than any other from the 60s, brings back mountains of memories from an era that was difficult for my parents but extraordinary for a little boy!
A beautiful song. If anything, I'd call this flower power or sunshine pop. Like the Cowsills classic Rain, the Park, and Other things.
This could be a perfect trilogy with "Georgie Girl" by The Seekers and "Windy" by The Association! For an encore, they could play The Rain the Park and Other Things by The Cowsills!
They so remind me of the Fifth Dimension.
I absolutely love this group!
Spanky McFarlane had one of those hauntingly beautiful voices that transcends. the decades. One of the most under rated of the great female singers 60's early 70's era.
The littLe rascal?
The little rascal ?
So nice to see "Spanky" fans unite here! Long live these great songs!
Spanky had such a great voice. Very underrated 🙏😎♥️😘
joy and innocence....a better time.....
A guilty pleasure. Spanky and her mates nailed it.
In the middle of the Early Rock Era, I had to live in denial that I loved this one.
The Cool Kids would have crucified me.
I've come out of hiding today to say this is just one of the great ones.
Amen !🎉
Nothing guilty about it.
This song is SO MUCH BETTER than in a Gadda da vida!!!
@@kennethsteffens6745 So much better than Stairway To Heaven for me.
@@kennethsteffens67451968 jr high make out parties where kids were expected to suck face to a 15 minute version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida had me wondering if I was queerball. Wasn’t into playing tonsil hockey with awkward tween Twiggy wanna-bees. I’d rather be riding my Stingray Schwinn with the guys or riding my Voit Surfmat (predecessor to the Morey Boogie board) didn’t have my first girlfriend until jr year highschool.
The Ed Sullivan Show meant two things to me back then:
1) A weekly window on the greatest social, music and entertainment revolution in history.
2) Ed saying "good night" and waving to the audience meant it was time to take a bath and get ready for - ugh - school the next day!
same for me
=D🤣
Anthony Fauci got his start on the Sullivan Show. Back then he went by the name, Topo Gigio. The little Italian mouse.
It sure was fun being alive in 1967 at 17. I love this girl and her way of being in the world.
It was! Even for this, then 12 year old😊
Being 14 was 👍.
I was a groovy 5-year-old ✌️ my favorite word was "psychedelic"‼️
I remember 1967 during winter time listening to this song on the radio. I am not into pop music but this song was special and so was the group. Being a musician myself I can appreciate the work put into it.
I'm a 🇯🇵 guy in my late 20s, and I listen to this song almost every day, which was released when my father, born in 1953, was in the 9th grade.
I hate that I live in an age where Billboard is dominated by vile lyrics and melodyless rap tunes. I sincerely hope that songs like this will return to day-to-day 🇺🇸.
They are great, aren't they? I like them too.
This was released in 1967..not 1953.
Jeez, you sound old.
I was born in '55 - I remember when this song came out. There was a variety of music then, and a variety now. I am digging "Dirty" by Grandson (true) but I swing back around to this stuff as well for nostalgia. But I get it. There is a dearth of uptempo songs these days - it was limited back then as well. You have to dig for it. Don't patronize the rappers - if enough get that message that stuff will decrease. Hasn't come close yet, though. Dig deep, though. There's a wealth of songs from the 1920s to the 1940s that is well written and uptempo - yours to discover.
@@bqkmg2037 he said his father, who was born in 1953, was in the 9th grade when this song came out.
I never get tired of listening to Spanky and Our Gang and I suppose I never will.
Wow!That really took me back to some great memories.
Me and my sister running into the living room anytime we heard music on the ED Sullivan show which my dad would be watching.
My sister would run up and turn the TV up to my dads dismay.
He didn't like any pop music.
This song is a good as California Dreaming, has the same feel to it.
Several people favorably compare Spanky & Our Gang to the Mamas & the Papas. I agree.
I remember being 5 yrs ols and waking up on a sunny Saturday morning and this song was cranking on my brothers radio. It just gave me such a happy feeling. I'll never forget it!
Music doesn't get any sunnier than this. The bright side of the sixties. 😊
She has such a distinctive voice, very very nice❤
Spanky McFarland had a powerhouse voice
🗣 🎶 She could really blast out those vocals - 👍
@@jamescalifornia2964 They brought in Spanky and her powerful pipes to replace that other blaster, Mama Cass Eliot -- who died suddenly in mid-career.
She sure did
Their name was inspired by The Our Gang series of the 40s .... and her last name same same as the guy who played Spanky in the series
@@jamescalifornia2964 , she still does! God, I can’t believe she is 80 years old now!
If this song doesn't make you feel good then you're dead.
PHENOMENAL SONG, PHENOMENAL BAND,,,, PHENOMINAL TIME TO GROW UP IN!!! WHERE DID IT ALL GO ,,, SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY WE WERE YOUNG!!
"Ice cream, daydream
'Till the sky becomes a blanket of stars."
This is the magic of Spanky and our Gang.
Daydream.
One of Mariah Carey's albums.
Still one of my favorite songs in October 2024.
When they sing the word "day" in the chorus, you can hear the true power of well-crafted 5-part harmony. It's like a beauty bomb going off in your ears.
👍
Wow...ur right...
The mastermind of those harmonies--the guy on her left with the goofy grin--died in a home accident soon after this song was recorded.
His death shortened the life of the group. We'll never know the masterpieces they could have sung.
@@jeremynv89523 I hate that this shit happened because we could've gotten some more really good music from them. Fuck ):
@@scootch4224 You don,t have to tell me they were gifted talented artists whos careers were cut short by the tragic deaths of some of their musicians! I saw Elaine many years ago in Atlantic City during a tour in 1984 and she was great and I will always love her !!!!!
What an amazing decade for music!
Incredible! I remember listening to this song in my Camaro. I loved life an was lucky that this song was created and performed so perfectly.
Spanky and Our Gang captured lightning in a bottle again and again, then lost it with the untimely death of Malcolm Hale at age 27. Now only McFarlane (Spanky) and Seiter (the "Chief", the drummer） are still with us at this writing.
Groovy big colourful flowers! Only in the 60's!🌼🌺🏵🌸
Thank you LORD, for all this great music!!!
I was living in Landstuhl Germany. As a 16 year-old, it was my final year as an Army brat. My dad retired in spring of 1968, and we moved to California. Great days.
Wow, this song, especially, is ultimate 60s. I wasn’t even born yet, but I can appreciate it.
I was a junior in HIgh School when this wonderful uplifting song came out in 1967. We were well into the Vietnam War in 1967. The draft was in full swing. I remember the recruiters would come to the high school, to try to recruit the seniors to join up when they graduated. There was so much great music back in the 60's thru the 80s. Then the quality of music started to fade somewhat in the 90's. Now it seem like music is like everything else has become. Not so great. Well it was nice to listen to Spanky and Our Gang today. They definitely put out some nice music.
They did. I probably daydream this tune in my high school years of the 90's.
The military has not changed, my son's high school offered aptitude testing, promising not to share results with any military recruiters.....LIE...those recruiters began calling our home to speak to my honors society son trying to snag him away from heading off to college. Vampires...Gave them all a good piece of my mind.😡🤬
You are correct, after about early '90's music nose dived big time. How much Ricky Martin, Run DMC, and Madonna can you take? Robert at 67.
I am 67 baby 80s teen so I am lucky never heard this song Beatles fan discovered strawberry alarm clock I luv the fashion music of the later 60s I am Aussie technically born summer of luv i am a natural trippey amazing times!💛
LOVE her voice back then but never able to put a face to it. She is gorgeous
That voice.....that magnificent voice....it’s an absolute pleasure watching someone do what they are put on this earth to do...
It aired on December 17, 1967. Well, hell, no wonder I didn't see it. That was the day I landed in Bien Hoa Air Base in the wee hours to begin my first tour of duty with the 101st Airborne Division. We left Fort Campbell, KY, on Friday the 15th.
Welcome back,1977,553rd MP CO.FT.CAMPBELL
Thank you for your service to our country.
Thank you for your service.
I was landing at Tan Son Nhut AB, south of Bien Hoa. 12th Recon.
Q: How many Vietnam vets does it take to watch Ed Sullivan? A: You'll never know, 'cause you weren't there, man!!
The lyrics were so clear and simple, pure. Those days are gone forever, at least we enjoyed them as it happened.
Great band from Illinois. In 1968, at the height of their success, group member Malcolm Hale passed away. He was a key to their sound, in the studio, so the band broke up.
Which he played instrument
@@mikesalvadore9295 2nd from the left with the hat.....
@@allandgraf482 thanks..
Always liked their songs.
The guy wearing the hat is Nigel Pickering. Malcolm Hale is the guy standing to Spanky’s Left hand. His cause of death was actually from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty heating system.
@@tonyvincent9753 Just Horrible, if some of the band members didn,t die and the group didn,t break up till much later, they could have been the greatest pop recording group of all time winning all kinds of awards and most likely would have been in the hall of fame !!!!!
Spanky was very beautiful.
Yes indeed she was! No one could Rock bangs cuter than she!!!! 👍😎🎵🎤❤️
you need glasses.
@@DonRamiro1 Go to hell.
@@DonRamiro1 No need for that.
She was,reminds me of a girl I had a crush on in high school '72, bangs and all
I dedicate this song to my late father, "The truck master!" Even when he was home, off that Mac truck, he was still absent. Constantly looking out the window in deep thought. He was thinking, seaching for his true home, but never know where to park that truck for good. Love you, Dad. Miss you terribly 💔
I absolutely love this song, play it over and over. Sixties Sunshine Pop was and remains joyous, just a wonderful sound.
Still my favorite genre of music!
@@MRBAMBAM1959 🌞
Me too It reminds me of such better times....I was 11 when this came out....
@@gmh101358 Same here i was born in 1956 !!!!!
No violence or threatening to shoot cops....That was music that I am glad I'm able to hear and listened to (even when I was 2 years old).
Lazy Day and Sunday will never be the same . That is for sure as cell phones cheat us from LIFE!
We cheat ourselves.
Amazing. Pop music was great back then. Times were better then too.
As Flower Child in 68 I loved this song Peace and ♥️
LOVE THIS SONG FOR SO MANY YEARS! Recently purchased the Spanky's greatest hits CD, has all their best songs. Like going back in time.❤
One of my all time favorite song of the 60s, incredibly uplifting.
What a wonderful time it was to be young. I so miss that world. Nothing going on now quite like it.
lovely song, takes me back to being a teenager, young and carefree......magic times
Uplifting, indeed. This planet and its people are tired. It is music and harmony that make me long for the past and better days.
My husband (boyfriend then) was in NAM. This song would take me out of my depression! Memories!!!
Just beautiful. Makes me a bit misty thinking of all the great feeling music of that time, especially 65-70
Beautiful pop for a dreamlike era.
Wonderful song from a great musical era. Wow! Was I blessed to be growing up then. This kind of music, from that period, simply makes me feel fresh...forever young!
Lead singer Elaine McFarlane, nicknamed "Spanky" was pals with the "Mamas and the Papas" and later toured with the band singing Cass's parts.
Just before my time I was born in 1973, but as I grew up listening to all decades of music, the 1960s was a fabulous era of music. This song is on my Spotify 60s playlist and it's one of my favorites on there. It's such a stress free, relaxing, uplifting, happy song. Something today's music is rarely doing. Those of you who lived through this era how lucky you are. ✌🏼☮
My favorite song by this group! Such a fun, carefree, uplifting song!
They were instant happiness. Loved them!
Love this group and their music! Wish they made music like this now days. I can wake up in a sour mood and listen to music like this a instantly start to feel happy. Sure wish music was like that now. Great stuff! 🎵♥️🌞♥️🎵
yea its a pure seratonin song, for a nice summer day like as this the fourth of july or a day off, its so upbeat but its hoaky sounding but its still a song that is smile inducing, and for times when you can let your guard down and smell the plesent smells of nature or if its more ones inclination the smells of food in the park or the smell of rubber friesh dirt and alcohol fuel fumes at a local race track with family and friends and the carnevale like smells of the food stand.
I love Spanky. They epitomize the 60’s, the joy of the music!
How fast things have changed since then. It’s like another planet
How I feel.
One of my all time favorite songs - just made you glad to be alive and loving life
I must listen to this song at least once a month. It was one of the best times of my life. Woodstock was right around the corner. ❤
woodstock. it was a happening i get that. but skinny (men not good) shaggy, drunk, high, grubby, muddy, broke.... what era would that be good? and the down with "the man," drop out, commune living, free love (many women devastated over that belief) all came to a fast halt. woodstockers' today and for quite awhile, housing, retirement, health, bills, family, g kids, g kids college all the things they said the man back in the day was foolish doing as the old generation didn't understand how the new world works.
Sunshine rock was a great addition to everything that was going on at that time. Sure don’t make these anymore
Love it
Loved this song as a kid and today I am a kid all over again. This channel has really been offering some solid videos as of late.
Still better that 99.9% of modern music. I would say 100% but here's hoping for a good song someday!!!!
Love it! Were we really that young once?
Actually for a “young” pop group they looked awfully old. Especially the guys in the group they looked like they were in their late 30s or early 40s
When the world was young.
@@michaelrochester48--the oldest at the time was Nigel Pickering, the man in the hat playing rhythm guitar, and singing, next to Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane. He was 38 when this performance was aired. Malcolm Hale (lead guitarist/vocalist next to Elaine) was 26 here... he, sadly, would pass away from carbon monoxide poisoning the very next year. Bassist/vocalist Lefty Baker was 28, and the (other) rhythm guitarist/vocalist Kenny Hodges was 31. The drummer, (with the falsetto!) John Seiter, however, was a mere 20. "Spanky" herself, was 25 here!
Oh Yeah, young once. Three days after I found my 1929 Ford hot rod I met my wife at an LRY Conference in Toronto Canada September 1,1973
And believe it or not she is the mother of My Biological Daughter who goes by the Name of Jewel Kilcher and her songs Foolish Games and Enter from the East are about the situation involving Me
Pleasant sounds that were in the air when I was a little kid with my cheap transistor radio. Ear candy!
How we forget how many magical songs they had! Definitely a band of the best of the sixties!
100% positive vibes with this song one of the greatest stand uplifting of all
Happy birthday Spanky for today 19th June 2024. Thankyou for the great music and your wonderful talent. xx
I'm back in the 60s when everything was new to me. Now as I'm in the autumn of my life its nice to go back. Thank you for the memories!
Yes.
I'm guessing I'm around the same age, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm in late spring/early summer.
This song is like a ray of sunshine to uplift you. A beautiful song from a much more laid back era.
Just one of those "feel good" songs that you heard but may not remember too well. The 60's was a real good time for music.
Thanks for your kind words, Ed. It was a different time in ‘66, with Nam going on but the music is still with me and I love it even more!!! Thanks
I truly miss those days growing up, in the '60s, hearing this song brings back a lot of memories. With all the things going on in the World today this song is soothing to hear.
Why is this making me cry? So beautiful.
Born in '58. This was my AM transitstor radio in Elementary school.
Oh yes, me too.
'57, for me. Totally agree.
She's so adorable on how she sings this song
She's a cutie
A perfect childhood memories song for me growing up in the 60s/70s. 🎗
man, what a time to live!
I love there music. Never get tired listening to it.
They are the one and only and can never be duplicated so glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies
This one is among the classics of what is now called, "Sunshine Pop", along with Spanky/Our Gang's other hits and some by the Mamas & Papas, the 5th Dimension (Up Up & Away), The Association (Everything That Touches You), The Turtles (Happy Together), Young Rascals (Groovin') as well as some Beatles tracks (Good Day Sunshine, Penny Lane). One of my favorites is The Rain The Park & Other Things by The Cowsills.
This song and "Goovin'" by the Young Rascals evoke the feeling of being a kid on summer vacation back in that time. Life was so simple. We were less informed and had so much less weight on our shoulders. Ignorance was indeed bliss.
Groovin was by the Young Rascals
@@bruceengelhart Correction made.
I agree whole heartedly about your comment. I would nominate another song that fits your summer vacation theme. How about "Daydream"by the Lovin' Spoonful.
It wasn’t ignorance.... it was being awake and free.
I was 8 or 9 and I loved this time. What a kinder, gentler time, I got a little choked up
By the rush of memories
I’m an only child 65 years old now, and my Dad and all my great aunts uncle’s grandparents and some childhood friends are gone.
If you old enough to remember feel blessed, if your not old enough feel blessed as well, but you missed out on a magical time Tom Struska
I add them to the top five pop vocalists after the mamas and the papas the Beach boys, and the fifth dimension
All favorite bands of mine from growing up, their music filled the airwaves!
I would agree
I would put the Association in there too. All very deserving.
I would put them before the Mamas and Papas, because they also could play instruments on stage while singing. Though this performance here isn’t all live, they performed live all over the US.
Don’t forget The Free Design
I was 10 years old when this song came out, I was in love with the girl next door....Summers since then have never been so bright or beautiful.
I can recall the feeling of magic and promise I felt when I would hear this song.
This song and group reflects the mood of the sixties.
As a kid during the '60s, I thought the song was "Daisy Day." Whatever it was, always made me happy to hear it. Elaine's instrument is so clear and strong!
The epitome song of the 60s and my childhood. One of my all time favorites and I'm 65! Many songs have passed through my years and this one, along with Harpers Bazaar's Feelin' Groovy, describe those better years.
One of my all time favorite songs ! This is THE ultimate song that most represents the 1960's ! Truly brilliant in every way !!!!!!
One of my favorite songs ever.
She is fantastic